Questionnaire on Sustainable Land Management (SLM) Technologies - Version 2019
Abstract
The ultimate goal of documenting and assessing land management practices is to share and spread valuable knowledge in land management, support evidence-based decision-making, and scale up identified good/ best practices. To achieve this, it is important to analyse field experiences and gain a better understanding of the reasons behind successful sustainable land management (SLM) practices, regardless of whether they were introduced by projects or whether they are found in traditional systems.
WOCAT focuses on efforts to prevent and reduce land degradation and restore degraded land through improved land management technologies and approaches to implement these. All practices may be considered, whether they are traditional or indigenous, newly introduced through projects or programmes, adopted and/ or adapted by land users, or recent innovations. The Questionnaire on SLM Technologies (QT) helps to describe and understand the land management practice by addressing the following questions: what are the specifications of the Technology, what are the inputs and costs, where is it used (natural and human environment), and what impact does it have?
Available in Arabic, English, French, Mongolian, Portuguese and Spanish. Older versions also available in Russian, Khmer and Lao (July 2026). Recommended citation: WOCAT Secretariat (2019). Questionnaire on Sustainable Land Management (SLM) Technologies. WOCAT & Centre for Development and Environment (CDE), University of Bern, Switzerland.
WOCAT focuses on efforts to prevent and reduce land degradation and restore degraded land through improved land management technologies and approaches to implement these. All practices may be considered, whether they are traditional or indigenous, newly introduced through projects or programmes, adopted and/ or adapted by land users, or recent innovations. The Questionnaire on SLM Technologies (QT) helps to describe and understand the land management practice by addressing the following questions: what are the specifications of the Technology, what are the inputs and costs, where is it used (natural and human environment), and what impact does it have?
Available in Arabic, English, French, Mongolian, Portuguese and Spanish. Older versions also available in Russian, Khmer and Lao (July 2026). Recommended citation: WOCAT Secretariat (2019). Questionnaire on Sustainable Land Management (SLM) Technologies. WOCAT & Centre for Development and Environment (CDE), University of Bern, Switzerland.
Date Issued
2019
Publication Type
Other
Subjects
Questionnaire
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Sustainable Land Management
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WOCAT Global SLM Database
Language(s)
en
ar
fr
mn
pt
es
Author(s)
WOCAT Secretariat |
Editor(s)
Schwilch, Gudrun | |
Gurtner, Mats | |
Hauert, Christine | |
van Lynden, Godert | |
Critchley, William | |
Publisher
World Overview of Conservation Approaches and Technologies (WOCAT) and Centre for Development and Environment (CDE), University of Bern
Project(s)
Related Publication(s)
Related URL(s)
https://wocat.net/en/wocat-media-library/questionnaire-on-slm-approaches/
https://wocat.net/en/database/
Access(Rights)
open.access